The European Union's foreign minister must retract an "inappropriate" comparison between an attack on a French Jewish school on Monday and civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday.

The military coup which ousted Mali’s president Amadou Toumani Touré in late March has only added to the confusion across the Sahara-Sahel region, caught between Tuareg rebellions and acts of terrorism by North Africa’s al-Qaida franchise